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<span class=large>THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI</span>
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CHAPTER 16
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Isaiah sees the Lord—Isaiah’s sins are forgiven—He is called to prophesy—He prophesies of the rejection by the Jews of Christ’s teachings—A remnant shall return—Compare <a href="isa/6">Isaiah 6</a>.  Between 559 and 545 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 6: 1 (1-13)."><span class='smallcaps'>In</span></a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/16/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE about 750 B. C.">year</a> that king Uzziah died, I <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/16/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="John 12: 41; 2 Ne. 11: 2.">saw</a> also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
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Above it stood the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/2a" mark="a" type="C" title="BD Seraphim; TG Cherubim.">seraphim</a>; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
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And one cried unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ps. 72: 19 (19-20); TG Jesus Christ, Glory of.">glory</a>.
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And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
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Then said I: Wo is unto me!  for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Appearances, Antemortal.">seen</a> the King, the Lord of Hosts.
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Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;
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And he laid it upon my mouth, and said: Lo, this has touched thy lips; and thine <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cleanse; TG Remission of Sins.">iniquity</a> is taken away, and thy sin purged.
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Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Called of God.">Whom</a> shall I send, and who will go for us?  Then I said: Here am I; send me.
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And he said: Go and tell this people—Hear ye indeed, but they understood not; and see ye indeed, but they perceived not.
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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes—lest they see with their eyes, and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 13: 14 (14-15); John 12: 40; Acts 28: 26-27; Rom. 11: 8.">hear</a> with their ears, and understand with their <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/16/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 2: 2.">heart</a>, and be converted and be healed.
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Then said I: Lord, how long?  And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;
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And the Lord have <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 17: 18 (18, 20); 2 Kgs. 25: 21.">removed</a> men far away, for there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
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But yet there shall be a tenth, and they shall return, and shall be eaten, as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves; so the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/16/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 9: 2.">holy</a> seed shall be the substance thereof.
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